"It is something that will be way in the past. It was important then and it is important today, but we will all be seen as just equal and just living our lives and trying to do the right thing and be the best person we can."

"People aren't comfortable with somebody who is different then they are. When a majority of people are something, and somebody comes along and they are a little bit different then they are, they're scared, they're sacred of what they don't know."

"There was nothing in my world that said this was positive thing if you are actually gay. ... I went on a journey of years and years, of trying to change myself. And I would go to doctors, and I would pray. And I would meet all kinds of people that thought they had ways to help. I tried anything I could see so I could be different and be straight."

"Equality is a tricky thing to define. Extensively it means that all people are treated equally and fairly. For people to be equal and for people to have equality, there is a lot of work that we as a society have to do."